Seminar in applied mathematics and statistics

SPEAKER:  David Meder (DRCMR, Hvidovre Hospital).

TITLE: Computational Parametric Mapping: Topographic information representation in the brain.

ABSTRACT:  Much of the information processed in the brain is organised topographically in the cortex, especially in the sensory-motor domain. We have shown that this topographic approach also seems to be an organising principle for higher cognitive information related to decision-making. In my talk I will discuss how the standard approach to computational modeling might be blind to a wealth of information processing in the brain that is not directly related to behaviour. Subsequently, I will show data suggesting that the brain seems to be computing more than is visible in behaviour and how this information is represented topographically. I will end with presenting ideas about future projects, including questions of whether the topography of information representation has any causal link to behaviour. 

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